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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood
- Author(s):
- Stephanie Butler (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- 2017 MLA Convention, GS Life Writing, TC Age Studies, TC Disability Studies, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
- Subject(s):
- Culture--Study and teaching, Ethics, French literature, Literature--Philosophy
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- MLA Convention 2017
- Conf. Org.:
- MLA
- Conf. Loc.:
- Philadelphia
- Conf. Date:
- January 4-8th, 2017
- Tag(s):
- 2017 MLA Presidential Theme, disability studies, ethics, medical humanities, memoir, mla17, Cultural studies, Literature and philosophy
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6ZP60
- Abstract:
- This is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby's memoir, The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, to examine ethical issues pertaining to auto/biography studies' and medical humanities studies' centralization of the capacity to produce embodied narrative to understandings of identity and personhood.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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